The results ranged from enigmatic computer images to one which revealed a lifelong desire to own a dog.

Sandra Onofrio, 51, said of her ‘Scottie dog’ doodle: “I’ve been doing this doggy doodle as far back as I remember.

“Now looking at it through adult eyes I see it resembles a Scottie dog and I now own two Westies which are the white equivalent.

“Must have known at a young age what dogs I wanted of my own.” Caitlin, 21, from Basingstoke, mysteriously but colourfully offered: “A selection of doodles related to my childhood.”

However, Fernando Constantine, 25, from Caversham Park, explained his as: “Some rainy day musings of what non-Readingites would associate with the town.”

Royals fan Richard Wilson, 21, from Sonning Common, pondered our doodle request and explained his effort as: “Looking for inspiration I happened to look down at my right hand and...well, there it was.”

Mike Daley, 38, from Caversham, could offer no explanation for his doodle but five-year-old Aaron from South Reading was more forthcoming.

He described his doodle, not only as a picture of himself, but signed it in an unusual anti-clockwise direction.

Caversham-based Nigel doodled his dream of owning a yacht while his wife Anne-Marie doodled the garden wall.

Reading Post chief reporter Linda Fort supplied a pre-doodled work from a long day in the courtroom. The meaning, only she knows.